Manifolding account-book.



PATENTED A G. 27, 1907.

115. M. BORING. 'MANIFOLDING ACCOUNT BOOK.

' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19. 1903.

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ENT orrron.

FRANK M. BORING, O1 DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF

OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

DAYTON, OHIO, A GORPORATION OF MANIFOLDING ACOOUNT ld-OOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed Juno 1Q, 1908. Serial No- 162,216.

To all whom it mdy concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MI BORING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Accountllooks, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to that class of manifolding account books in which the entries are made upon a series of original leaves which are retained within the book, and these entries are duplicated upon a set of duplicate leaves adapted to be detached from the book; and it is among the general purposes and objects of my invention to provide an improved means for handling the duplicate slip so that the carbon duplicating sheet need not be handled or disturbed between the various ltrausactions, and to furnish an improved method for carrying forward the total amounts of the previous sales,

and also to facilitate the opening of the book quickly to the proper place ready for receiving the entries.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification: Figure 1' represents a perspective view oi the book showing a. duplicate leaf partly withdrawn from beneath the carbon sheet. Fig. 2 represents a pcrspcctivo view of the book showing the duplicate shoot fully withdrawn and ready to be detached. Fig. 3 represents a diagrammatic view showing the relative positions of the various leaves when the book is ready 5 or use. Fig. 4 represents a modification oi the manner of binding the original sheets.

'lhe back-piece of the book consists of a sheet of card-board or other suitable material which is stiff enough to lorui a good writing surface. Extending under this back-piece 10 is a cover-piece which is made of thin flexible card-board and envelope the en tire book and consists of a back cover portion 11 and front cover 12 and a separator 13 the purpose of which will appear later. Bound together, by suitable wire staples, at the lower end 14 of the back-piece 10 is a set of leaves upon which the original entries are to be made and which, for convenience, may be called originals; and these binding staples extend through both the front cover 12 and the back cover 11, and the front cover may thus be folded over upon the upperside ol the book when the book is not used. The original leaves 20 extend to the outer end 15 of the boolrfand at their free ou tor ends have attached duplicate leaves 21, there being of course one duplicate attached ,to each original leaf; but each duplicatcis attadhed to its original by only a narrow web of paper 22, as is shown in. Figs. .1 and 2, the remaining width oi the paper being slit away so that the duplicate may easily be detached from the original. In the normal position of these two sets of leaves the duplicate leaf is folded over on top of the original leaf with the writing surface of each leaf uppermost.

At the end 15 of the back piece 10 there is attached, by means of a flexible hinge, a carbon manifolding sheet 16 which is adapted to be folded over and rest upon the upper surface of the duplicate sheet 21. This carbon sheet 16 does not extend the full length of the duplicate sheet 21, as is best shown in Fig. 3, and thus a small portion of the duplicate sheet extends beyond the carbon sheet and may easily be taken hold of by the person using thebook so as to be Withdrawn in the manner later described. The lower endpi the duplicate sheet 21 moreover, does not extend fully down to the binding portion of the original sheets but falls slightly short of this point, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the free end may easily be grasped by the clerk using the book.

Each original leaf is perforated near its outer end so as to form a stub portion 23 and upon this stub portion the clerk may enter the customers name and the amount of the purchase together with such other data as may be desired, constituting a sort of summary of the entries ipon the original sheet and then this stub portion ma oe detached and filed away with a cashier or in cash rcgister.

The man ler of using the book lollows. The first page oilthc original sheets 21) is made without any duplicate sheets attached thereto. The clerk folds this original sheet back upon the cover 12 and then folds the carbon shoot 16 over upon the next succeeding duplicate sheet 2l whichis attached, as will be observed,

to the following original then the first original is folded over Oil $01) oi the carbon sheet 16. The card-board flap 13, which has been call l'd the separator, and the purpose of which will be he rcnmfter explained, is held upward in the position shown in: Fig. 1 and the clerk then writes upon the original sheet as the usual entries, and he also at the same time makes lllil :Iitries on the stub portion 23, for filing. As soon as the d: tries have been made he detaches the stub portion 23, fol back the original sheet upon the cover 12, and theireeeild of the duplicate shoot 21 is then exposed so thatit may easily be taken hold 0i and the entire duplicate sheet,

carryin with it the next original sheet, may easily be withdrawn from beneath the carbon sheet without the necessity of handling the carbon sheet in any mannor. In Fig. l the duplicate sheet is shown in the process of being withdrawn from beneaththe carbon sheet 16. As soon as the clerk has pulled the duplicate sheet toward him in the manner just described so as to withdraw from beneath the carbon sheet both the duplicute and original to which it is attached, then the clerk pulls the duplicate sheet forward and away from him to the position shown in Fig. 2, the carbon sheet in the mi-antim'e having dropped beneath the original sheet which has just been withdrawn and therefore being in position between this original sheet and the succeeding duplicate sheet. In this position. as shown in Fig. '2. the clerk may easily hold the original sheet and by a slight movement detach the extended duplicate sheet therefrom since all that separates the two Sllt't ts is a slight web portion 22: and this duplicate sheet is then transaction. Furthermoreit is apparent that the duplicate sheet which is delivered to the customer upon any transaction is not one which is attached to the original sheet corresponding to that same transactioirbut it is attached to the following original sheet, which. of course. makes it possible to have a carbon sheet situated at the perforated or folded end where the original and duplicate sheets are joined, and thus the carbon sheet will not have to be disturbed dm'ing the entire use of the book, and being situated at the end of the book in this manner it may maintain its position undisturbed and is free from liability to be torn or misused during the handling of the book.

1 will now describe-the use of the separator l3. As before stated, the clerk while writing the entries in the book, holds this separator in an elevated position, as shown in Fig. l; but as soon: as the duplicate leaf has been withdrawn to the position shown in Fig. 2 and the duplicate leaf has been detached from the original, the "separator" 13 is folded over upon the original sheet 20 which is now in position for the next entry, as shown in Fig. 3. closed; but upon the re-opening of the book the clerk simply grasps theuppei end of the book and holds the scparato1"" l3 in the position in which it waslast set. so that the original leaves which have already been written upon are allowed to fall away from the separator, but the one about to be written upon is held beneath the separator. Thus the book naturally opens to the position ready for use and the clerk, as before, now holds back the separator in an elevated position so that he may write the new entries upon the original sheet.

In case these manifolding books are used for the purpose of keeping a separate account for each customer, one book being used for that customer alone. it becomes desirable to carry forward from one sheet, to another the amount of the past transactions so that. upon the dupl cate sheet, which is delivered to the customer, will appear the itemized account of the last transaction together with the statement of his total account to date; and furthermore this amount is retained upon the last original which has been written upon in the book so that by opening the book at this point the total amount of the account can easily be determinotbby the proprietor. In Figs. 1 and 2 I Then the book may be season have shown the duplicate Sheet 21 with an angular portion cut away, as at 30, from the upper right-hand corner, and upon the stub portion of the original sheet 20 there is spaced ofi' upon the righthand side a blank portion 3i which lies directly below i e cut away poi:- tion of the duplicate sheet when the sheets lie in their normal positions. When the clerk has added up the total amount of the first transaction, he writes this total upon the blank portion 31 of the stub of this original and it is obvious that this amount; is there upon duplicated upon the stub of the next original and is not duplicated upon the duplicate sheet 21 owing to the fact that the duplicate sheet is cut away at this portion. Thus when the next original sheet is to be used for the next transaction the clerk immediately sees the duplicated amount of the total for the previous transaction written in the upper right-hand corner of the stub" and this amount he writes in the column on the body portion of the original sheet. This total amount of the past transaction is added to the amount of the present transaction and this new total is written both upon the original sheet (and is thus duplicated to the duplicate sheet) and is also written, as before stated, in the right-hand corner of the stub portion and is thus duplicated upon the next stub ready for reference in the following transaction in the manner described. It is apparent that this blank portion 31 of the stub, and the cut-away portion 30 of the duplicate, must simply be large enough to permit of writing two numbers in the blank portion, one of which numbers is the total carried forward there by duplication from the preceding stub, and the other number is written there by the clerk as the new total which is to be carried'forward by duplication upon the next succeeding stub portion.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modification in the method of binding the original leaves. The entire set of the original leaves 20, with the duplicate leaves attached and arranged as heretofore explained, is placed face downward with its binding portion 2O situated at the lower end 14 of the back-piece 10 but with the entire set of leaves extending outward upon the cover 12 in the opposite direction from the normal position when in use. Then the binding portion 20 is suitably fast era-d to the back-piece l0, and to the back cover portion ll, by means of-staples or other suitable means. Then the entire set of leaves is folded over backward upon itself to its normal position ready for use, as

shown in Fig. 4. It is obvious that this reversebinding method produces a double thickness of leaves at. the lower end 14 of the back, but it will be seen that this is compensated for by the fact that beyond the binding end there are also duplicate layers due to the presence of the duplicate sheet 21 attached to each original shcct, which duplicate sheets are not bound in at the end .14, as before explained. Thus this revcrsely bound portion of the original leaves can be pressed down sufficiently to cause the leaves to assume practically a flat position throughout the length of the book. As soon as each original leaf is used by being written upon, it is folded backward. upon the cover 12, as before explained, in which posit.ion, .as will be seen in Fig. 4, it normally lies out fiat owing to this reversed method of binding; and thereby the duplicate sheet 21 may be made to. ektcnd almost down'to the binding 1. In a nmnifolding account book the combination with a set of original leaves bound together at one end of a suitable back; of a copy lent detachably secured to each original leaf at. the end opposite the binding end and folded over upon thewriting surface thereof; a manifold ing sheet attached to said back opposite said'binding end and adapted to be folded over between one copy leaf and the preceding original; and a flexible separator attached to said back for sepzu-oting the used from the-unused original leaves, substantially as described.

2. In a manifolding account llOOlK, the combination of a set of original leaves bound together at one end of a suitable back and folded over reversely upon the binding por;

tion, a set of copy iezwes, and a manifolding sheet adapted. to be interposed between the original and the copy sheets; substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. in a manifolding account book, the combination of a set of original leaves bound together at one' end of aj sultzible back and folded over reversely upon their binding portion when in normal position ready for use; a' copy leaf attached at the free end of each original leaf; and a. mani folding sheet attached at the other end 0! the back.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK M. BORING.

Witnesses:

J. B. HAYWARD, N. C. \rVOOD'. 

